Treasures from India

A gold, diamond, and spinel sarpesh with enamel on the reverse.
Treasures from India at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

FOUR YEARS LATER

 I'm back. I have other content all over the place, but I miss having a regular old blog to post more than just pictures...my thoughts on interesting shows, artists, books, lectures, etc.

 The picture above is a Persian plaque from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I am going to take full advantage of living in New York and see one exhibit per week in 2015.

For New Posts...

I haven't posted here forever....sorry about that. I've been putting up new images on two different blogs. Melissa J Tyson has studio and work images, while Hip Hip for Imperfection is mostly random inspiration from the outside world. I have a new studio space and a new work project too...The Bloomfield School. We teach art classes in Brooklyn. I'm very proud of it, so check it out.
If you've found your way here, I hope you will keep clicking along and take a look at some of my newer posts. Thank you!

Neverland

"One piece of very important knowledge did come out of all his trickery, however, and it was the truth that empowered him, namely that ultimate power rests on the boundary between two worlds – the world of reality and the world of illusion. If you can make people believe something of your dream, it will cleave to their perception of reality and they will cede control to you. Every magician, every religious leader, every politician knows this to be true."

Piers Dugeon
Neverland

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

"Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't – and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown."

Rebecca Solnit
A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Yves Klein

Fire Paintings. You can see much more at the Yves Klein Archives.

Yves Klein

"The composition, even the texture of my paintings, is the texture of the pictorial matter; it must be highly effaced, intensely worked, strong, and serious, in order to permit the display in all its splendor – color."

Yves Klein
Overcoming the Problematics of Art

Process

Some of the steps involved in making my Terrain brooches.
1 - pure silver and copper for the alloy
2 - thoroughly melting the metal
3 - rolling out the ingots
4 - shaping and the final piece

Working

A Case of Identity

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would dare not to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable."

Arthur Conan Doyle

"A Case of Identity"

The Mountain Goats

I wish he would come tell me stories while I work.

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

"It is the conviction that nothing mysterious can ever happen in our everyday life that has destroyed the joy of abstract thought."

Wassily Kandinsky
Concerning the Spiritual in Art